What happened on October 23, 2005

OPINION

L.A., the king of sprawl? Not at all Robert Bruegmann, ROBERT BRUEGMANN, professor of architecture, art history and urban planning at the University of Illinois at Chicago and chair of the art history department, is the author of "Sprawl: A Compact History," published this month by the University of Chicago Press.

The great GOP spat -- of 1916 Ralph E. Shaffer, RALPH E. SHAFFER is a professor emeritus of history at Cal Poly Pomona. E-mail: reshaffer@csupomona.edu.

Inside the minds of monks and moms Katherine Ellison, KATHERINE ELLISON is the author of "The Mommy Brain: How Motherhood Makes Us Smarter" (Basic Books, 2005). Her website is www.themommybrain.com.

Time to help an ally in need Anatol Lieven and Rajan Menon, ANATOL LIEVEN is a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. RAJAN MENON, also a senior fellow at the foundation, is a professor of international relations at Lehigh University.

Plot line: Drink Pepsi! John Furia Jr., John Furia Jr. is a former president of the Writers Guild of America West, a professor and founding chairman of the division of writing in the School of Cinema-Television at USC, and a TV writer.

Hey, stupid, this is not an ad Michael Levine, MICHAEL LEVINE is the head of an L.A.-based public relations and marketing firm and the author of numerous books, including "Guerrilla PR," "A Branded World" and his latest, "Broken Windows, Broken Business."

What's a corrupt election among friends? Michael McFaul and Chingiz F. Mammadov, Michael McFaul is a Hoover Institution senior fellow and professor of political science at Stanford University. Chingiz F. Mammadov is director of the independent research center Vatan in Baku.

Orange Revolution turns to rot Oles M. Smolansky and Rajan Menon, Oles M. Smolansky is university professor emeritus of international relations at Lehigh University. Rajan Menon is the Monroe J. Rathbone professor of international relations at Lehigh and a fellow at the New America Foundation.

Picking up the pieces Richard Eder, Richard Eder, former book critic for The Times, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1987.

Murder in the equation Nicholas A. Basbanes, Nicholas A. Basbanes is the author of several books, including "A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes and the Eternal Passion for Books" and the forthcoming "Every Book Its Reader: The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World."

Crime without punishment James Marcus, James Marcus is the author of "Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot.Com Juggernaut."

Two kinds of pragmatist Jeffrey Rosen, Jeffrey Rosen is a law professor at George Washington University and legal affairs editor of the New Republic. He is the author of "The Naked Crowd: Reclaiming Security and Freedom in an Anxious Age" and the forthcoming book "The Most Democratic Branch: How the Courts Serve America."

Architect of the language Ken Smith, Ken Smith has written several books, including "Junk English" and "Raw Deal: Horrible and Ironic Stories of Forgotten Americans."

Hollywood's fellow travelers David M. Oshinsky, David M. Oshinsky is the George Littlefield professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of several books, including "A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy."